Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
BLACK ELKAs you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
More Black Elk Quotes
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It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death.
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I cured with the power that came through me.
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The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.
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Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth.
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The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
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Behold this day. It is yours to make.
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There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
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It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.
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When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great Spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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